Editing ViolaWWW (section)

==Competing against Mosaic==
While ViolaWWW opened the door to the World Wide Web,<ref name="timblhistory"/> its limitations, including it only being implemented on the X Window System, meant it could not compete with [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]], the browser which brought the Web into the mainstream.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mosaic -- The First Global Web Browser |url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_mosaic.htm |access-date=28 July 2010}}</ref> Among other things, Mosaic was easier to install on the computers most people were using.<ref name="timblhistory"/> Originally developed for [[UNIX]], Mosaic was soon ported to [[Microsoft Windows]],<ref>Freedman, Alan. ''Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, 9th Edition.'' New York: Osborne, 2001, p. 629</ref> a platform on which ViolaWWW never ran.